The Resurgence of Al-Qaeda in Syria and Iraq (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781505854657)

The Syrian civil war has allowed al-Qaeda to recover from its setbacks up to 2010. Its main affiliate in the region seems to be testing a new strategy of collaboration with other salafist-jihadist groups and a less brutal implementation of Sharia law in areas its controls. In combination, this might allow the Al Nusrah Front to carve out the sort of territorial control of a region (or state) that al-Qaeda has sought ever since its eviction from Afghanistan.On the other hand, Syria has also seen a civil warbetween two al-Qaeda inspired factions (Al Nusrahand the Iraq-based Islamic State in Iraq and Syria)and there are indications of limits to al-Qaeda's ability to cooperate with other anti-Assad factions and gain popular appeal.The extent that the Syrian civil war offers themeans for al-Qaeda to recover from its earlier defeats will determine whether the organization has a future, or if it will become simply an ideology and label adopted by various Islamist movements fighting their own separate struggles.

Author: Strategic Studies Institute,U. S. Army War College Press
ISBN-10: 1505854652
ISBN-13: 9781505854657
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/31/2014
Pages: 78
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.16d